美国普林斯顿大学艺术史系的荣誉退休教授罗伯特·贝格利将他的八篇文章结集成册,遂成《在埃及人中的贡布里希及其它艺术史随笔》一书。书中收录了五篇旧文和三篇新作。贝格利教授是中国新石器时代考古和青铜器专家。作为一个使用西方方法论来研究非西方艺术史的西方学者,以及一个站在当下却试图了解遥远过去的现代人,他一直对不同时代、不同文化间的互动有着特殊的关注,也常以文化和历史局外人的身份思索艺术史这门学科。从中国青铜器、法国哥特式建筑到古埃及浮雕,这本书即以跨文化和跨时代 Robert Begley, an honorary retired professor of art history at Princeton University in the United States, put together his eight essays into a book entitled “Essays on Gombrich among Egyptians and Other Art History”. The book contains five old and three new works. Professor Begley is a Neolithic archeology and bronze expert in China. As a Western scholar who studies western history of non-Western art using western methodology and a modern man who is trying to understand the distant past nowadays, he has always paid special attention to the interaction between different times and cultures, and often takes cultural and History outsider identity thinking art history of this discipline. From Chinese bronzes, French Gothic architecture to ancient Egyptian reliefs, the book is based on intercultural and trans age